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Zhipu AI (GLM)

Tsinghua-originated lab behind the open GLM family; first listed Chinese AI lab

Founded 2019Beijing, China🔓 Open-sourceWebsite ↗

Zhipu AI (Z.ai) is a Beijing lab with roots in Tsinghua University and the first Chinese AI lab to list publicly. Its GLM series spans open-weight text, vision and code models; the GLM-5 generation is a frontier release reportedly trained on domestic Huawei Ascend chips.

Models

  • GLM-5.2Flagship model, 1M-token context (2026)💬 Text🧮 Reasoning💻 Code
  • GLM-5.1Long-horizon agentic model💬 Text🧮 Reasoning💻 Code
  • GLM-4.6VVision-language multimodal model👁️ Multimodal

Highlights

  • First Chinese AI lab to IPO (Hong Kong Stock Exchange, 2026)
  • GLM-5 (2026) reported as trained entirely on domestic Huawei Ascend hardware

Information compiled from public sources; refer to the company's official website for authoritative details.